Hours of rainforest recordings now available worldwide

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Gorillas beating their chests, chimpanzees pant-hooting, elephants rumbling—and poachers firing assault rifles—these are some of the more than a million hours of sounds recorded by a grid of 50 microphones in the Congolese rainforest since 2017.

https://elephantlisteningproject.org/elp-story/

 

The massive acoustic monitoring effort covers about 480 square miles in the Republic of Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park—an area about the size of Los Angeles. It’s part of Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project, established in 1999 to detect communication among forest elephants and pinpoint poaching activity. The project has used acoustic methods to “estimate elephant populations, impacts of oil exploration and logging, and to quantify illegal gun-hunting in protected areas,” according to its website.

“For years I’ve been trying to get these sounds that we’re recording more accessible to other people,” says Peter Wrege, behavioral ecologist and project director. That’s now come to pass: The myriad forest sounds are now available to researchers worldwide via the cloud platform Amazon Web Services.

Marconi Campos, one of Rainforest Connection’s biologists, says it’s common to hear researchers “bragging about how many data they had in their hard drive.” One of the Rainforest Connection’s goals is to end data hoarding by encouraging scientists to upload their recordings to its platform. “It’s a real chore because there’s a culture around not sharing,” White says. “That’s what we’re trying to change, because there’s so much amazing stuff out there.”
 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/researchers-share-more-than-a-million-hours-of-rainforest-recordings

[sarahb 17,207]

So it's basically this 

 

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9 hours ago, sarahb said:

So it's basically this 

 

[Gatlyn 1,366]

Initially I thought this would be good background noise for sleeping, then I listened to the embed 

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18 minutes ago, Gatlyn said:

Initially I thought this would be good background noise for sleeping, then I listened to the embed 

Me too, I was thinking "finally, rainforest sounds to relax...  ᶻᶻᶻ" and then